Monday, June 29, 2026

1918 LODZ ARCHIVES: VARIED CERTIFICATES

 

Individual certificates issued by the Jewish Community Council in Lodz. 

In addition to names, many addresses are included.

https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/11314653?_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_resetCur=false&_Jednostka_cur=2&_Jednostka_id_jednostki=11314653

Index:https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/11314653?_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_resetCur=false&_Jednostka_cur=5&_Jednostka_id_jednostki=11314653

Some Names on certificates:

Rejle SZWARCBARD (signatures of Siegfried Lande, L. Szwarcman)

Fajei GROSS

Fajga BORNSTEIN

Pinkus SIERADZKIEGO (Sieradzky?), Rebece (Rebecca?) SIERADZKIEJ

Noska PRASZKIERA--burial certif. , Salezem MAJMONOWI

Chana LIDZBARSKA, widow--financial need

Erben S. SCHEPS--heirs applied for a burial plot in local cemetery

Pauliny  HASENFELD---3yrs old; died in Budapest; buried in 1916. Adolf KON, attorney-at-law.

Dr. Szmon HARTMAN A- died at age of 31 in Lodz; buried 5 Mar. 2018.

Mordcha GOLDMANN--proof of salary

Icek Joel NAJMAN--died in 1915, age 44; buried 5 Mar. 1915 in local commune cemetery. Certificate issued to Mr. Brusze Dwojrze NAJMAN. Proof of death & burial.

Hersz BIBERGAL--request for exemption of tuition fees to Jagiellonian University in Krakow for son, Samuel BIBERGAL, due to lack of funds.

Siegfried LANDE

Jan POLAK--proof of unemployment & lack of funds; request for exemption for payment of tuition fees to University of Warsaw.

Wladyslaw POLAK---proof of lack of funds; request for fee exemption. Llived at 54 Panska St., Lodz. (same address as Jan)--brother to Jan. Also, requested issuance of an exemption certificate for his brother, Jan, and himself, for payment of fees to U. of Warsaw.

Olga KEMPNER--widow of Leopold. Request for support due to lack of funds.

Szlojma GRUNBLATT--exemption from paying community taxes due to poverty.

Heinruch FLIEDERBAUM--exempt from paying community taxes due to poverty.

Sura Branel SILBERSTEIN--not required to pay community taxes.

Enoch Sindel KUSCHER--due to lack of funds, not required to pay muicipal contributions.

Mrs. ROCHMS & son, Schmul--not responsible of municipal dues.

Michal RUNDBERG---granted 4-week leave of absence.

Szlama LEDERMAN--funeral director. lack of funds.

For further information, see the archival records.


Sunday, June 28, 2026

1917 LODZ: REGISTER OF PAYMENTS TO GUARDIANS OF ORPHANS


https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/11314591

The archive's title card: 

Archiwum Panstwowe W Lodzi: State Archives in Lodz

Zespol: Lodzka Gmina Wyznaniowa Zydowska: Fond/record grp: jewish Religious Community of Lodz.

MIKR. 29648: Microfilm reel # 29648

Unit/signatura 86

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This is a wartime (1917) Jewish orphan-support payroll list.  

The information shows orphans receiving financial support through a Jewish communal structure in wartime Lodz.

These lists provide guardians' names, names of Jewish children who lost parents during war years (this doesn't mean that the parents died because of the war). It includes guardians' Lodz addresses, numbers of children cared for [dzieci/dziecko= child/children] and their names, and sums paid in marks [Mk].

Left column: surnames & addresses, Middle: number of children, Right: children's names & amounts in marks.

Thursday, June 18, 2026

1942 WWII: List of those punished for illegal trade

 The list is from the Polish Genealogical Society:

Masovian Voivodeship, Warsaw Municipality; State Archives in Warsaw

https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/id4608-sy278-se


Click on each link, above to get to pages of lists. There are 156 names. Most seemed to have financial punishments; some were sent to Treblinka as well.

The information is in German. The form is filled in with handwritten German.

The title & column headings translate to English, as follows:


     


Here is a careful column‑by‑column translation into English:

  1. Lfd. Nr. – Serial no. / running no.

  2. Tgb. Nr. – Register no. (literally “diary number,” i.e., case file number)

  3. Name des Täters – Name of the offender

  4. Wohnung – Residence / address

  5. Halt – Status (likely marital or personal status; exact nuance depends on context and is not fully clear from the snippet)

  6. Haftentlassung – Release from custody

  7. Datum des Strafbescheides – Date of the penal order / judgment of punishment

  8. Strafgrund – Reason for punishment / grounds for penalty

  9. Geldstrafe – Monetary fine

  10. Ersatzhaft – Substitute imprisonment (imprisonment in lieu of unpaid fine)

  11. Kosten – Costs (court/legal costs)

  12. Geldstrafe eingegangen – Fine received (payment of the fine recorded)

  13. Ersatzhaft von / bis – Substitute imprisonment from / until

  14. Bemerkungen – Remarks / comments

The large title Strafliste at the top means “penalty list” or “list of punishments.”


Page #1: https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=4608&se=&sy=278&kt=&plik=001.jpg








Sunday, June 14, 2026

MARTYROLOGY OF THE VITEBSK JEWS: Book of Memory

https://mishpoha.org/martirolog/martirolog.pdf

[edited by Arkady Podlipsky, Arkady Shulman]


 " This book contains the names of Vitebsk Jews who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War [WWII], were tortured by the Nazi invaders and their collaborators in the ghettos of Vitebsk and other cities, were victims of political repression, and died since 1940 and are buried both in Vitebsk and beyond."

This book is written in printed Russian Cyrillic (273 pages). As needed, use your favorite translation tool.

Image 5 (i.5): 

Vitebsk Jews who died in battles against Nazism in 1941-45

Examples (translated, alphabetical): 




Image 98:

Jews who died in occupied Vitebsk 1941-44


Image 132:

Vitebsk Jews of politcal repression


Images 153-154:

Key to Abbreviations

Vitebsk Jews: Died in Vitebsk


Image 249:

Vitebsk residents who died outside of Vitebsk














Saturday, June 6, 2026

1916 JEWISH RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY OF LODZ: INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONNAIRES OF THE WOMEN'S SECTION: Assessing Poor Families & Children


https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/11314559

Held in the Polish State Archives in Lodz.

 Fond: "1916 Jewish Religious Community in Lodz". Ref.: 39/228/0/-/54.


Some of these are difficult to read because the writing is so light.










Here is the translation for the second page of the questionnaire.





EXAMPLE